The Quest with Nick Horiates & Cole Jamison

“Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much value you can squeeze out in any one deal."
-Mark Cuban

The most successful businesses are built on relationships. If you are able to create relationships that last and provide complementary skills to the other members of the business, you are laying the foundation to build a long lasting and s...

This week’s guest is Bakker Shields, founder and CEO of Ubora Fitness and the BAMN Coalition! Bakker has been an entrepreneur from the time he was 12 and has started numerous companies along the way! Bakker graduated the University of Oklahoma in 2021 and has since gone full time in his entrepreneurial ventures. His current projects are the BAMN Coalition and Ubora Fitness, where he is working to change the way the world does fitne...

“Don’t worry about being successful, but work towards being significant and the success will naturally follow!"
-Oprah Winfrey

What does it take to be an entrepreneur? Is it an attitude which chases after risky opportunities? What about someone who is incredibly creative, coming up with new and innovative ideas every day? Or maybe it’s someone who is just open to new things? Well, Dan Carson is here to dive into ...

This week’s guest is Senior Vice President of Willow Bend Mortgage, and Senior Mortgage Loan Originator, Dan Carson! Dan has been in the lending business for over a Decade, where he has had a tremendous amount of success! In 2019 he was given the Future Leaders award from the Mortgage banker Association and has been a finalist for Forbes 40 under 40 numerous times! Dan also has been recognized by D-Magazine as one of Dallas’s top M...

We decided there is no better time to talk about gratitude than the week of Thanksgiving! This time of year allows friends and family members to come together, eat loads of foods, and more importantly, truly appreciate the people in our lives. There are countless things in our lives to be grateful for, and it’s far too easy to take what we have for granted. As a result, we tend to neglect the most important aspects of our lives, wh...

Leadership is one of most foundational skills many of the best CEOs, business owners, professional athletes, and more have that has helped set them apart from the rest of their industry and competition. Leadership is definitely a complex skill to develop; however, if you are able to continue to work at improving your ability to lead others towards a common goal, the world will open up to you in ways you never thought imaginable!

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“We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling!”
-Jimmy Neil Smith

There is nothing better than hearing an amazing story. One that grips you, keeps you on the edge of your seat, and ultimately has some hidden lesson you can later translate into your life! But what makes a good story? How can you take facts or events and weave them into a compellin...

This week’s guest is sports reporter and former A&M track athlete, Kennedy Smith! Kennedy’s track career at A&M was nothing short of remarkable! She competed in events her entire time at A&M, winning multiple races along the way! She was introduced to sports reporting her Junior season and quickly fell in love with it! She now works with A&M’s TexAgs Stacked sports reporting team and AT&T sports net!

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“I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.”
-Slyvester Stalone

There is nothing better than hearing how someone relentlessly pursued their goals and came out on top! That can be YOU too! By focusing on the process and deciding today to commit over time, you are beginning the journey where you will look back later and thank yourself for having started. 

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This week’s guest is professional ballet dancer, Annie Medich! Annie is a graduate of the HARID Conservatory and the University of Oklahoma, where she earned a BFA in Ballet Performance and a minor in Mathematics. Not to mention, she did all of that while dancing with Oklahoma City Ballet II for two seasons while attending OU! Annie has spent summers training at Canada’s National Ballet School, Ballet West, Houston Ballet, Texas Ba...

“You have to believe in yourself, challenge yourself, and push yourself until the very end; that’s the only way you’ll succeed.”
-G-Dragon

Did you know 90% of all millionaires become millionaires by investing in real estate? Crazy right! How do they do it? How did they get started? What allows people to invest in real estate even if they don’t have a lot of money? Well, aren’t you in for a treat :)

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This week’s guest is real estate investor, Alex Andersen! Alex grew up in Lawton, Oklahoma. He attended college at the University of Oklahoma, where he double majored in Finance and Accounting. He started learning about real estate as a sophomore in college when researching ways to become rich and break the generational curse of bad financial habits. He has since created a plan to pursue real estate once finishing school and has al...

“If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.”
-Warren Buffet

Investing doesn’t have to be complicated! It can be easy to become overwhelmed by the technical terms, the fancy options, or any number of things. What will help you on your journey is finding someone you can trust to guide and educate you along the way!

This week’s guest is Financial Advisor, Nathan Grant. Nathan is a financial a...

This week’s guest is Financial Advisor, Nathan Grant. Nathan is a financial advisor and planner with Northwestern Mutual, where he covers Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama. Nathan works alongside his clients to help them plan for their financial future! Whether it’s a short term goal of decreasing your debt, or the long-term vision of owning and house or planning for retirement, Nathan brings together your goals to provide a compr...

“Have confidence in your abilities and then be tough enough to follow through until you reach your goals!”
-Felicity Luckey

Nutrition and healthy living can seem really complicated and almost impossible to achieve. There are so many diets that have extreme guidelines and any deviation from them results in you feeling off track and can ultimately make you quit the diet outright. When it comes to nutrition and living a long term h...

This week’s guest is Certified Nutrition Specialist , Kimberly Young. Kimberly is a board certified nutrition specialist (CNS) in private practice in Dallas, Texas. Kimberly’s approach is focused on dietary and lifestyle modifications with a primary focus on whole food. She uses various diagnostic tools to evaluate her client’s unique needs and customizes results oriented programs based on her clients goals. 

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“Have confidence in your abilities and then be tough enough to follow through until you reach your goals!”
-Felicity Luckey

We’ve all had trouble with self confidence and thinking the path we are on isn’t the right one. It’s natural. What matters is what we do when those thoughts arise. Even if you aren’t gunning for the title of the Fittest on Earth, learning how to develop your self confidence, control the variables you can co...

This week’s guest is CrossFit Games Athlete, Parker Foster. After breaking his back in his last season of high school football, Parker questioned whether he’d be able to ever compete at a high level in sports again. Two years after his injury, Parker was cleared to begin training hard again and since then has gone head first into becoming a professional CrossFit Athlete! Parker competed in the Atlas Games in June, marking his first...

Whether you are a student starting your first semester in college, an athlete trying to come up with your next training phase, or you are a business owner trying to launch your next big product, your ability to organize your life, utilize schedules, and maximize your time are going to be one of the determining factors in whether you make it or not!

This week's episode is another installment in our new series called, "Secre...